The Poor Educational Performance Of Brazilian Schools

Updated July 2013 by The World Bank, Brazil, with the 7th largest world economy, qualifies as a developing country according to their Gross National Income (GNI) of $11,690 per capita (in US dollars) under “Upper middle income: $4,086 to $12,615”; the United States qualifies as a developed country, with a GNI of $53,470 per capita, under “High income: $12,616 or more”. Brazil has an unemployment rate of 5.7%, and 21.4% of its population below the poverty line, with 4.2% labeled as extreme. ("South America:: Brazil"). The United States has an unemployment rate of 7.3%, with 15.1% of it’s population below the poverty line ("North America:: United

Many believe that congress is trying to look after themselves because of the “Car Wash Investigation” and blaming everything on Rousseff for what happen and claiming that she could have used the money for her pass reelection and no one would know but her. When congress voted to impeach Rousseff and she did not stand a chance losing by a landslide now the senate where they will check on whether congress vote is true or not deny the impeachment. The reason why I choose this current event is because it reflects back on the reading called “Never Meant to Survive” by John H Costa Vargas. In the reading Vargas talks about Brazil myth. “According to the existing myth, Brazil is a polity characterized by the relative unimportance of race both as a cognitive-moral category and as a determinant of one’s structural social position” (104). In other words, what Vargas is saying that Brazil is still based on a social hierarchy and how the power stays within the same social class. When congress got caught with the scandal behind Rousseff back they blamed everything on her to sustain the power. Brazil is known for having hundreds of Favelas where poverty is at its extreme. As talked in class the rich and elite earned money are not invested in poor society, but rather back to themselves or somewhere elsewhere. When Dilma Rousseff was in office the economy was at the best and before that Brazil was still

Latin America currently has an education system that faces significantly low performance and pressure for education improvement by local, state and national authorities. (Chafuen, 2014) In 2012, PISA ranked almost every Latin America countries below the global average for participants. Chile in particular, scoring ten percent lower that the average, was the highest-ranking country in Latin America. (PISA, 2012) (See Appendix III) Leaders of Latin America have identified economical factors as the leading cause of educational inequalities and lackluster overall academic performance by the region. Furthermore, leaders of the region like, Herald Beyer, push the government to help economically disadvantaged people by providing additional funding and merit-based scholarships. (Crellin, 2012) By pushing the government to provide these economic resources, leaders look to afford people of low economic status

This led to overcrowding in schools and large class size, which led to a more impersonal relationship between teacher and student.

Shockingly, more than 700 million people across the world are illiterate, perceiving literacy as a luxury. Canada’s rate is one of the highest in the world; it is the 97-99%, which is exemplary thanks to the provided education. The two countries, on the other hand, do not have high literacy rates. India currently stands with the largest illiterate population with only 72.23% because thousands are young and poor parents who must raise their families by working for or nurturing them. Likewise, Nicaraguan people also focus on labor and earning money rather than receiving an education.

“Those selfish, elitists in Brazil cannot see the poor people in Brazil prosper and have access to the little things that the middle class in Brazil has always taken for granted,” Rousseff said.

Northeast Brazil is one of the poorest areas in a country where there is an incredibly great divide between the wealthy and the poor. Similar to the situation in the United States, many impoverished families are caught in a cycle where being born into poverty means your resources are less accessible than that of someone born into money. As a result, the young people remain impoverished throughout their lives and have children that face the same struggle continuing the cycle.. Education is one of the critical resources that may be able to assist in removing someone from an impoverished situation. Unfortunately, in places with a large population of poor, the school systems tend to be in poor condition or non-existent.

The IMF found that intense income inequality is also accompanied by “resource misallocation, corruption, and nepotism”. Since people will seek favored treatment, income inequality can also oppose civil unity and trust in the future. Moreover, the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expressed that “econometric analysis suggests that income inequality has a sizeable and statistically significant negative impact on growth.” The OECD’s findings were based on a report titled “In It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits Us All”. John Schmitt, the Research Director for the Washington Center for Economic Growth, summarized the OECD’s findings stating, “The new report finds that between 1990 and 2010 gross domestic product per person in 19 core OECD countries grew by a total of 28 percent, but would have grown by 33 percent over the same period if inequality had not increased after 1985. This estimate is based on an econometric analysis of 31 high- and middle-income OECD countries, which concluded that lowering inequality by just one ‘Gini-point’ (a standard measure of inequality used by economists) would raise the annual growth rate of GDP by 0.15 percentage points”. “Latin America’s new college graduates are inferior to other countries, because they receive poor elementary and high school education, which

Brazilian Health System’s condition is chaotic and it needs a solution urgently. Corruption is the main reason that makes people die every day without assistance, because people pay a lot of taxes and part of the collected money should be invested in hospitals and disease prevention.

Brazil, as it is known today, is a young country. Its capital city, Brasilia, was built in 1956. Its democracy only started in 1989, with the country’s first direct elections ever, ending a 25-year dictatorship era. And we still feel the burden of its young institutions

Urban slum and physical environment shaped a sharp contrast between the rich and poor. Social abnormalities are reflected in this film, which are caused by the rapid development of Brazil's economy. The slums in the city, the "edge" zones in the city, are the abominable products of the process in rapid acceleration of urbanization. The people can be separated into two groups, which are the high education group of citizens, and another group is the citizen with no knowledge. This issue is the most significant reason for the gap between the rich and poor. The citizens who are high education can catch up

Education in South America is a very large issue, which needs to be solved. A lot of citizens in South America never even went to elementary school. The literacy rate of generally all the countries in South America is about 85%-75%, with their total population of 422.5 million people. That means around 35,912,500-31,687,500 people that cannot read or write. Of the children who do get some amount of education, approximately 20 million of them are at risk of dropping out for various reasons. These people who drop out have a much higher risk of living in slums, hunger, substance abuse, and many other problems that have arisen in the South American countries.

Education is essential for a human, since you are little you must go to school and learn the necessary. Once you are older you get more subjects to study. The fact is that Brazil has excelents Privative Schools, but

Within this paper we will be exploring the country of Brazil and more specifically, the city of Rio de Janeiro. The focus of this paper will be the link between poverty and race in Rio. Rio has one of the highest populations in Brazil that currently live in favelas (the slums of Brazil), close to 25 percent and all of these people are currently living below the poverty line. There are many causes of poverty, but there are also many solutions and current initiatives that are currently being implemented by the Brazilian government. While Brazil is an extremely diverse country, the poverty line also happens to mainly be a segregation between races. The poor are marginalized in the city, with their dangerous and less than ideal living conditions and rising living expenses. This includes things from bus fares to health problems; from living in such tight quarters, like the ones in the favela slums, to little to no social security benefits. The rich, on the other hand, are living in the developed areas of the city and do not face these same issues. Most recently there was the summer Olympics in Rio, which managed to shine a very bright light on all of these issues we will be discussing throughout this paper. The Olympics were intended to show Brazil as an upcoming economic player, but managed to do the complete opposite and create a large stage for protestors and activists to speak on the issues happening in Brazil. These

The article then begins to show the difference between the rich and poor, and how the combined wealth of the top “1 percent” will overtake the bottom “99 percent” (Juan 8). The article goes on to show that the Marxist interpretation of capitalist exploitation actually turns out to be accurate. The article references some disturbing facts, such as the fact that the “1,426 richest individuals have an aggregate net worth of US$ 5.4 trillion, which is more than the combined gross domestic product